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The Pavilion in The Village showcases original settlers

By CPC | Aug 1, 2024

When The Village at Castle Pines chose to build its Pavilion seven years ago, it was designed to serve as a multiple-use facility: a gathering place, a venue for larger…

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The Higbys: A Greenland tapestry

By CPC | Jul 1, 2024

Today’s recreated frame of the iconic Higby Mercantile building sits windblown, almost forlorn, at what was once a major crossroad in lower Douglas County. At one time, the Denver and…

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Castle Rock’s founding triumvirate

By CPC | Jun 1, 2024

  Shakers and movers are colorful folks, visionaries and risk takers seeing and often seizing opportunities that others will not. Castle Rock’s founders John Craig, Jeremiah Gould and Philip Wilcox…

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it!

By CPC | May 1, 2024

  The headline comes from Yogi Berra, but it applies equally to the good folks of Jarre Valley and Jarre Canyon. Douglas County settlers were naturally attracted to water and…

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Twin Creek and two buttes

By CPC | Apr 1, 2024

Born in 1863 of Scotch lineage, George Patrick Stewart hailed from Murchison, Victoria, in Australia’s gold belt. After his storekeeper/postmaster father died when George was 7 years old, his uncle…

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The “Spud King” of Douglas and Denver Counties

By CPC | Feb 27, 2024

Swashbuckler! Now there’s a colorful term seldom used today. One historical character that comes immediately to mind is D.C. Oakes of our Wildcat Mountains. Another bold, flamboyant and larger-than-life figure…

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The Sedalia Perrys: Woes and blessings

By CPC | Jan 29, 2024
old portrait of lady from 1800s

Worn down by dismal life opportunities available to them in Somerset, England, Elizabeth Ann Dowden and her husband James Perry packed up, leaving the Isles in 1848. With sons James…

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Three Sobey generations in Wildcat Mountain’s shadows

By CPC | Dec 28, 2023

      Born in Lostivefel, England in 1844 during the reign of King Edward VII, Frank Sobey was raised in Dubuque, Iowa, where his parents had immigrated. Against their…

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Bud’s Bar: A history between the tracks

By CPC | Nov 27, 2023
men standing behind bar

  If you’ve lived in Douglas County more than a few years and haven’t been to Bud’s Bar in Sedalia, you ain’t nobody.  Whoa!  Let me be more sensitive.  You’ve…

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Gove Creek happenings: the Dakans and frontier justice

By CPC | Oct 29, 2023
old photo from the 20th century

Have you ever hiked Sandstone Ranch?  It is a grand, sculpted piece of Douglas County open space inventory bounded by Gove Creek and located south of Highway 105 and the…

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